Key developments on Dec. 11: Russia continues to suffer record losses in December, Zelensky says Ukraine has arms to resist at least until mid-2025 if US cuts aid, finance minister says Russian proxies sentence 9 Azovstal defenders to 24 years, life in prison Russia may launch new Oreshnik missile against Ukraine in ‘coming days,’ US…
BEIRUT — Isatta Bah wakes up from a nap in a crowded shelter on the outskirts of Beirut, clutching her baby, Blessing. The 24-year-old from Sierra Leone spends her days waiting for an exit visa that could put her and her 1-year-old on a plane back to the West African nation. She wants to reunite…
CNN — FBI Director Christopher Wray’s resignation announcement was the latest, and inevitable, step in the accumulation of massive and unusual power around President-elect Donald Trump. Wray said Wednesday he would step down at the end of the Biden administration next month to save the bureau from becoming sucked even deeper into politics with a…
CNN — Two New York tragedies gripping America show how politics is failing to address some of the most fundamental economic and societal problems and reflect the nation’s mood ahead of Donald Trump’s second presidency. The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, captured on surveillance footage, became a shared moment of national horror. But it…
Russia is already at war with the West. It has been so since its occupation of Crimea in 2014, when Russia sought to secure its access to Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet and as a potential lever of influence over Kyiv’s political direction. Even in 2014 — at the annual Valdai…
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 11, 2024 Karolina Hird, Davit Gasparyan, Nicole Wolkov, Olivia Gibson, Nate Trotter, Grace Mappes, William Runkel, and Frederick W. Kagan December 11, 2024, 5:30pm ET Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this…
This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. At times, the conversation sounded an awful lot like hostages recounting their monthslong trauma. Their opinions were unlikely to be heeded, and rarely solicited. There was little they could do to change…
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today’s edition, political embed Alec Hernández sifts through 20 interviews Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, has done to…
CNN — FBI Director Chris Wray will resign at the end of the Biden administration, the agency said Wednesday, as it became clear he would be forced out by President-elect Donald Trump. Trump, who originally nominated Wray after firing the previous FBI director, previously announced he will nominate Kash Patel for the role, although Wray…